From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 4 11:10:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D306637B405 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 11:10:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA34F43EC5 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 11:10:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a071.otenet.gr [212.205.215.71]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h04JAQ4X003662; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 21:10:30 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h04IdLtr001354; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 20:39:21 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h04IdLh9001353; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 20:39:21 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 20:39:21 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: MikeM Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lots of files in a directory Message-ID: <20030104183921.GA1272@gothmog.gr> References: <20030102084356.R18514-100000@atlas.home> <200301021213290839.0A719772@home.24cl.com> <200301020901270548.09C1C68B@sentry.24cl.com> <20030103044538.GB3132@gothmog.gr> <200301030925230109.03BFB685@home.24cl.com> <200301040904180651.007E1509@sentry.24cl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200301040904180651.007E1509@sentry.24cl.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2003-01-04 09:04, MikeM wrote: > The upgrade to 4.7 went very smoothly. > [...] > When I tried to "tar -yxf" the freedb archive, the server became > unresponsive. > [...] > The server is back online now, and running well. Trying to duplicate the > problem, I ran a similar sequence sequence of events on a server here at my > house. It didn't crash, but I did get screenfuls of the following error > message: > > /usr: create/symlink failed, no inodes free > tar: misc/ed11d70f: Cannot open: No space left on device What does `df -i' report for your /usr filesystem? Every file needs an i-node of itself on a ufs filesystem, and having many thousands of files takes many thousands of i-nodes... At home, I can see something like the following: giorgos@gothmog[20:36]/home/giorgos$ df -i /usr Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/ad0s3g 4636750 1793606 2472204 42% 205145 377253 35% /usr The iused, ifree and %iused columns are those you're interested in. - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message